Performance analysis of distributed applications by suitability functions

Author

Getov, V.S. ; Hockney, R.W. ; Hey, A.J.G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Southampton Univ., UK

fYear

1993

fDate

20-23 Sep 1993

Firstpage

191

Lastpage

197

Abstract

A simple programming model of distributed-memory message-passing computer systems is first applied to describe the couple architecture/application by two sets of parameters. The node timing formula is then derived on the basis of scalar, vector and communication components. A set of suitability functions, extracted from the performance formulae, are defined. These functions are applied as an example to the performance analysis of the 1-dimensional FFT benchmark from the GENESIS benchmark suite. The suitability functions could also be useful for comparative performance analysis of both existing distributed-memory systems and new architectures under development

Keywords

distributed memory systems; message passing; parallel programming; performance evaluation; program testing; 1-dimensional FFT benchmark; GENESIS benchmark suite; communication components; couple architecture/application; distributed applications; distributed-memory message-passing computer systems; node timing formula; performance analysis; performance formulae; simple programming model; suitability functions; Application software; Cache memory; Computer networks; Computer science; Distributed computing; Kernel; Loss measurement; Performance analysis; Performance loss; Vector processors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Programming Models for Massively Parallel Computers, 1993. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Berlin

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4900-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PMMP.1993.315540

Filename

315540